Emery plays the blame game.

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Unai Emery has come out swinging in the media and to be quite honest, it’s a sight to behold. I’ve always suspected he was a bit on the spectrum, his words really drive home that point for me. This proclamation was particularly delicious for me.

“In Paris, I missed the chance to become the best coach in the world,”

My word. For starters.

“My mastery of French was enough to explain and make me understood,”

Trying to become the greatest with basic French, in a city that’ll throw shade for speaking French with an accent they dislike, is not a good start if you’re a serious person.

He then upset the most expensively assembled squad in the world, had them playing negatively, and tanked a one-horse race to Monaco. He is the only coach to have had a full season with the Sheikhs and not win a league title.

He was such a cuck, that his assessment of his time in Paris was basically, ‘Neymar was the leader’, and ‘I was in the out-group.’

“A player, a president and a coach. Each time, a different leader profile. I know when I’m the main person in a group and when I’m not.

“It’s a process that every coach has to live and internalise, it’s something you learn with time and experience.

“In each club you must know what role you play and what role you assign to the rest of the group. My opinion is that at PSG the leader is called Neymar.

“Or more exactly, the leader will be called Neymar, because that is what he is becoming. Neymar came to PSG to be the leader, to live the necessary process to become the world’s number one.

He took over a defence that conceded 19 under Blanc and conceded 30% more goals. He took over an elite attack that had scored 102 and tanked it to 83. Things turned around the next season when Monaco was decimated and PSG went on a wild spending spree. He was a joke in the media, a laughing stock with the players, and the football was negative.

Fast-forward to yesterday.

“Arsenal was a club on a downward slope for two years before I arrived. We stopped this fall and even began to rebuild the club with the Europa League final and fifth place in the league, only one point off Tottenham despite the fact that we took just one point in our final five matches. We had Champions League qualification in our grasp and it went wrong in the end. But it was a good season and we had this notion of continuing to improve. But we lost our four captains: [Laurent] Koscielny, [Petr] Cech, [Aaron] Ramsey and [Nacho] Monreal. They were personalities that we missed this season to stay on the right track, and some stars did not have a good attitude and asked for more than what they were giving back. Taking all of that into account, we needed time to succeed with our transition to a new Arsenal, which is what I wanted.”

It’s clear he’s out here trying to land a new job, I hope it happens for him, but cherry-picking what happened is embarrassing.

He was a disaster start to finish. No club in our situation would have hired him if they’d done even 5 minutes worth of due diligence. He landed the job because Canales put him forward, which is an outrageous privilege to start with. He didn’t learn the language. He had no connection with the squad. He didn’t know what he was trying to do on the pitch. No one wanted to play for him. The fans couldn’t stand the football.

Was he helped by what Wenger and Ivan left him? No. But he knew what the situation was when he took over, he had a presentation of the ages to explain how he was going to return us to greatness. He had a good sense of what needed to be done as well, fix the defence, be the protagonists, play great football… but he was a classroom manager. He couldn’t take complex football theory and execute it in terms players could understand.

Now we are where we are, overseeing the worst Premier League season in our history.

The players seem in a better place. This is Mesut.

“As a team, we are much happier and everyone wants to give everything for this club”

“Especially tactically we have improved a lot and I hope in the future we will be more successful.”

This is Lacazette.

“We are more together now. The way we think as well on the pitch and outside the pitch. Tactically we are better and we’re going to see a big improvement in the next few weeks.”

The next two months is huge for us, we need to rack up points to clear relegation, we need to find the balance between attack and defence, and we need to take the good vibes behind the scenes and see some output. Great process is all well and good, but obviously, we’re still in the business of points.

Hopefully, we’ll see a decent cup run.

Right, see you in the comments. x

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Graham62

CG

You are hysterical.

Freddie Ljungberg

“Raul has come to Arsenal decimated the squad: spent £250 million, bought over 12 players, installed two patsies( Edu and Emery), taken us from 6th to 10th and never attended one bloody conference.His influence is so malign – the directors box- has become a Spivs Paradise.No other figure in football has as much power and him with the least amount of accountability and scrutiny.Wenger attended nearly 2 press conferences every week for 20 years.He was accountable, and always under scrutinyHe never had the power or influence of Raul. Yet no one can ask him or question him over anything”. So… Read more »

Marc

Graham

Do you mean hysterical funny or hysterical stark raving bonkers?

Graham62

Pierre

I just want Arsenal to win a game.

If Ozil makes a pass in the 93rd minute that leads to a winning goal, I’ll be very happy.

James wood

Ozils playing because he is the best we have.?

Graham62

Marc

What do you think?

Freddie Ljungberg

Pierre

Want to explain why Ozil hasn’t assisted a goal away since the day he signed his new contract? That’s 6 months under Wenger before Emery was in the building.

He’s 31, been regressing for years, he’s not magically going to transform into the player that frollicks around on a summer meadow in your imagination Pierre. Not happening.

Graham62

Marc

Delusional to the extreme and “stark raving bonkers”.

Marc

Freddie

It drives me round the bend that the Sanllehi hired Emery agenda still goes on on here. There were 3 people in the committee, Gazidis, Sven and Sanllehi of which Gazidis was the senior man.

Why doesn’t everyone celebrate the fact that Sven’s gone because he was involved with Emery’s hiring? According to most on here we also didn’t sign any good players when he was in control of identifying talent.

Marc

Graham

Just checking!

Graham62

“Mesut Ozil, Footballer, a man barely alive. Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the worlds first bionic man. Mesut Ozil will be that man”

“Er….boss, forget it. We haven’t got enough parts”

James wood

Very sad To see Ozil’s decline as bad as it’s been and the fact it has
happened and has been funded by the Arsenal.
A player who was German player of the season 5 times And was capped
92 times.

Marc

Fuck the parts we don’t have the budget!

Valentin

Freddie, “times.Like I said, having to lower the wage bill as drastically as we had to while also selling 4-5 players on average to afford one replacement was never going to make for smooth sailing. ” Except that we did not lower the wage bill, it initially increased under Raul. Pay rise to Xhaka and Elneny. Lichsteiner. Wage bill for this year may have decreased (the number have not yet been published) from the previous increase, but there is nothing magical or arduous work there. Simple wastage. Bar Iwobi who was unexpected, there has not been a single sale of… Read more »

Words on a Blog

Marc/Valentin,

At this point in time, any discussion of Sanllehi’s merits and demerits is premature. He ain’t gonna influence anything until the summer transfer window.

All that matters until then is Arteta and the players.

Save the Sanllehi debate for the summer.

Marc

Words

I agree with you unfortunately a lot of posters on here have already made their minds up and will not change them.

Habesha Gooner

I still think we had a good summer. Luiz has been poor for Emery but now looks like he was a sound investment. Martinelli was an insane find. Tierney will come good, his attitude and work ethic alone will see him become a great signing. We over paid for pape. around 50 mil was fair but we had no money upfront. I still think he will come good. Saliba is also a really good investment in my eyes. His saint etienne appearances have been impressive. Since Raul has been here the let down signings have been Sokratis Luiz ( now… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Valentin We cut 46m from the wage bill last summer. We then added some on after that, unclear right now how much. Pretty substantial imo. He’s a director of football not an actual wizard you know that right? How many non essential players could we get good money for of the squad left over from Wenger? Any player we could get good money for would still probably cost more to replace. Not really his fault is it. We just had a lot of dross. “Last summer the two deals that I believe will be great success Martinelli and Saliba. In… Read more »

Dream10

Bukayo Saka is in the final 18 months on his contract. Hope we get an announcement of a new deal for him soon.
For me, he’s been the most impressive youngster at the club. Need to tie him down asap. He’s a great alternative for Bayern if they don’t want to pay up for Sané

Northbanker

Sanllehi debate becoming as boring and as pointless as our history under Emery

Dissenter

Raul has done a reasonably good job overall
The calamitous management of the Sanchez and Ozil deals were congealing by the time he took his position. He didn’t have command until Gazidis left the building in the autumn of 2018.
The jury is still out regarding the Ramsey situation. I think the player wanted to leave from the get-go and dithered on signing a contract which Raul subsequently took off the table when Gazidis left.
We would have two players on mega contracts had Raul not taken that move- a perpetually crocked but good Ramsey and a past-it called Ozil.

Dissenter

Dream10

I expect that Bayern will get involved with Saka.
He is every inch as good as Hudson Odoi offensively and can actually defend as well as any full backs we have in the club.
The club has to prioritize renewing his contract, as well as extending Martinelli’s.

Freddie Ljungberg

We should have done more to shift and replace Xhaka though. Would take Pape Gueye for him in a heartbeat just based on the 10 minutes of grimandtubing I’ve done I don’t demand perfection from anyone at the club, that’s impossible. What I do want and am seeing now is that we’re trying. We’re getting rid of all the overpaid, weak, lazy, old players (soon the last of them are gone) and replacing with young hungry players with high ceilings.. Due to our budget it’s not always possible to do that in all positions so we’ll get a loan or… Read more »

Marc

Dissenter Ramsey had spoken of wanting to play abroad way before he left us. He’d decided to leave but didn’t want fans to think he’d already made his mind up, if we’d left the contract offer on the table for another few months he would’ve been able to say “I was going to sign but then I was offered £400k a week – who could turn that down?” Sanllehi drew a line under the situation and also showed to other players he wouldn’t be fucked about – precisely what we needed at the time. It wasn’t a perfect solution but… Read more »

Habesha Gooner

Dream We can’t afford to let go of Saka, Guendouzi and Martinelli. All three of them will develop to become starters for us in the near future. Willock, Nelson, Smith-Rowe and Nketiah haven’t hit the same heights as those three but we should still wait to see how they turn out.

Marc

“We should have done more to shift and replace Xhaka though”

Halle fucking lujah!

It really can’t be that difficult to replace a player who’s positive attributes cannot be put forward by his biggest fans other than he hasn’t made a major fuck up for a couple of weeks.

Dream10

Dissenter

Yep. No doubt about it. He’s a fantastic talent. Saka can be a very good wide midfielder/wide forward or an elite LB/wingback. A very convincing young player who ticks all the boxes

CG

H.G “””I still think we had a good summer.”””” So why then have we won 2 league games in 17 then? And why do we have a negative goal difference? Some on here – not all- completely ignore that fact. We -for all the hullabaloo, all the expense, the teck decks, the trips to Dubai and this ludicrous new regime- Arsenal are actually substantially worse than we were than Wengers last ever season. (Substantially worse ) But dont worry: Tieney, Saliba and Martinelli will propel us up the table. They wont. They are inexperienced, unproven and physically immature. From the… Read more »

Marc

CG

I had a very traumatic experience the other week – one I know you alone on here will understand and sympathise with. So I wandering around my local Waitrose doing my weekly shop and I’m in the isle with the fruit juice – I’m looking for some Cranberry juice when all of a sudden I notice that they’ve got carton’s of Gazpacho. I mean who the fuck put’s Gazpacho with the fruit juice and stocks it in January and then doesn’t fucking have it in the summer.

For a second I thought it must be Sanllehi’s fault.

Zacharse

jeez marc, take it easy on the jokes, yr gonna burst my guts w this undiluted hilarity

Words on a Blog

Marc,

I know for a fact that you lie.

Sanllehi did NOT buy Gazpacho during this transfer window!

Dissenter

Marc
For a brief moment, I thought…hey, Gazpacho must be a brand of XL condoms.
I was disappointed to discover from google that it’s a Spanish/Portuguese cuisine.
That’s enough evidence for CG and Valentin to point the finger at Raul.

James wood

🤣🤣🤣

Marc

There I was thinking I was being clever and then I realised there are previous posts on here from me where I say I love Gazpacho – and you lot think Gazpacho is a really well hung pornstar.

It’s fucking cold soup people honest!!!

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Twitter buzz has guen doing business in recruiting upcanpo an papa fella…
Not sure any truth

Marc

RSPC

Guen doing business? You mean Sanllehi or Edu?

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Dream
Good call on Saks

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Matty g

Marc

Him talking them round like he did with ssliba

Marc

RSPC

With you – although I get the feeling that if it is true then Sanllehi is playing “Godfather” and pulling the strings!

Olumide

Words on a Blog
Sanllehi did NOT buy Gazpacho during this transfer window!

Actually, Sven scouted Gazpacho but can you imagine? Sanllehi overpaid for it. They said ‘pay £20 but no free shipping’ and Sanllehi said ‘I’ll pay £30 and I detest free shipping, I love shipping fees!’
What an imbecile Sanllehi is.

Marc

Olumide

Apparently Sanllehi paid £17 for a 99p cheese burger the other day as well.

rollen

And how about those agents fees on Gazpacho